Join Samantha Allen for a journey through history to uncover great inventions and explore ideologies created by Black men and women that have shifted, disrupted and challenged how we see and experience the world today.
Project Category: Identity Events
Memory and Learner Identity
In this talk, we look at different learner types so that you can explore and understand your own learning styles. Combining the latest neuroscience and the speaker's years of teaching practice, this lecture aims to offer some basics of how we learn, remember and some key strategies for enhancing one's learning and memory.
Sex in the City: Jeanne Mammen and Otto Dix’s 1920s Berlin
This lecture looks at the work of two artists who explored these 'new' sexual expressions, Jeanne Mammen and Otto Dix, alongside the work of sociologist and activist Magnus Hirschfeld, founder of the Institute of Sexology.
Ancestral Trauma in Caribbean Culture
Join Samantha Allen to understand what ancestral trauma means for the British Caribbean community and how we can help to create spaces of safety and liberation in the workplace.
Documents of Memory: South African photography in the 1980s
This talk will consider the formal qualities of photographs produced during the apartheid era in South Africa and the impact of such images in post-1994 museums, physical landscapes and public consciousness.
Collective Memory: honouring deceased in Japan
Every summer Japan celebrates a festival, Obon, to commemorate ancestors, whose spirits are believed to return to this world in order to visit their relatives. It is believed that memorial ceremonies not only help people to pay their respect to spirits of deceased relatives but also serve as healing rituals helping families and communities to process their grief and disturbing memories.
Picturing Memories: A walk through contemporary art
Focusing on the mysterious Canadian landscapes of Peter Doig's childhood and moving to Luc Tuymans's explorations of collective memory, we will explore this theme through specific painterly examples.
Poetry Reading: Memory and Identity
In collaboration with Book Club Bunch we are excited to announce our next poetry reading evening! Join us as we delve into literary works and enjoy masterpieces read out loud by amazing actors! In February we will focus on Memory and its impact on our identity and will discuss poems exploring this subject.
Henry Moore’s Shelter Drawings: Vulnerability and Community
This lecture explores Moore's 'Shelter Sketchbook', the artist's feelings for his subjects and how, over time, the artist's intention was lost to suit a more heroic narrative.
What does it mean to Succeed and Fail in Western Society
We spend so much of our lives striving for success and are often petrified of failure. During this talk we will explore the concept of success and failure in Western society and discuss better, healthier guiding principles to a happy life that we should be embracing for 2023.